The camp, “You Are You” (the name has been changed to protect the privacy of the children and is also the name of Morris’ series), is for “Parents who don’t have a gender-confirming 3-year-old who wants to wear high heels and prefers to go down the pink aisle in K-Mart and not that nasty dark boys’ aisle,” Morris said with a laugh.

It is also a place for both parents and children to feel protected in an environment that encourages free expression.

“[The kids] don’t have to look over their shoulders, and they can let down their guard. Those are four days when none of that matters, and they are surrounded by family members who support them,” Morris said....

Although it is unknown if the kids at the camp will eventually
identify as gay or transgender—or even if the way gender and sexuality
are defined throughout society will evolve—the camp allows the kids to
look at themselves in a completely different way.

“They get enough questioning in their daily lives, so it’s a great
place for them to express themselves as they feel. … I feel we hear so
many of the sad stories and how LGBT kids are disproportionately
affected by bullying, depression, and suicide, and it hangs a heavy
cloud over them and kind of dooms them from the beginning. I’m saying
this is a new story. This is not a tragedy.”

It's not often that one looks at a youth camp showing pictures of happy children and finds oneself thinking, "you know, those jihadists really do have a point". This camp for "gender non-conforming" is evidence that decadent Western society deserves to be killed with fire.

Here is my prediction: by encouraging these mentally abnormal young boys to revel in their illness rather than to conquer it, the consequences are going to be exactly the opposite expected. I hope they do follow the progress of the camp attendees over time, as I predict that as adults, the camp attendees will not only show higher rates of depression, drug abuse, and suicide than the average of the general population, but that they will show higher rates of depression, drug abuse, and suicide than the LGBT average.

I will also bet that at least one of these campers will murder his parents in his teenage years. Some of these kids are so young that their behavior appears to reflect their mother's desires for a daughter rather than any self-directed inclinations.

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Some of the comments in that article are downright idiotic (but that's to be expected), especially those that say "let kids be kids!" as if children are the perfect arbiters for what is healthy, normal, moral, prudent, etc.

So by their thinking, if a kid was cutting himself, the parents should just roll with it because he's expressing himself. Oh but wait, "the kid is hurting himself and that's different!" the progressive would interject.

Some of these kids are so young that their behavior appears to reflect their mother's desires for a daughter rather than any self-directed inclinations.

The parents are preparing their boys for their world. My guess is that these parents are fixtures in the victim social matrix, and they know the only way their white, male children will be accepted as victims is to give them a victim identity at an early age.

Ernest Hemingway was dressed as a girl, and required to wear a girl's long hair, by his mother Grace until he was six. Supposedly she had wanted twins, so she first made EH wear his sister's hand-me-downs; then purchased identical outfits for the two of them; then she held Marcelline back a year so that the two "girl twins" could attend the same classes in school.

Grace Hemingway was a neurasthenic, entitled, self-centered woman who felt maltreated by the upper middle class suburban life she married into. She found fault with her physician husband until he shot himself in the head. Then she sent Ernest the suicide weapon. She considered Hemingway's early work obscene, a disgrace to her presumed gentility and sophistication. One encounters a quiet, cornered version of his father in The Nick Adams Stories. Sexual and gender ambiguity are central to The Garden of Eden, posthumously published.

Ernest Hemingway was dressed as a girl, and required to wear a girl's long hair, by his mother Grace until he was six.

Dunno if we should make much out of that. Up until the late-19th/early-20th century, boys were commonly dressed in a manner indistinguishable from girls and weren't "breeched" until as late as seven or eight years old. Look at paintings and photographs of little boys from that era and before -- they're all wearing long hair and dresses. Unlike the disturbing story Vox linked above, this wasn't a "let your freak flag fly" kind of thing, but apparently a tradition born of convenience.

Those are the creepiest pictures I've seen all year. And yeah I'll go with it's most likely a case of "Mommy wanting a girl" or "Let's encourage abberant behavior so all our liberal friends will see how great we are."

I recall a client during a divorce case about 10 years ago who insisted that letting her 8 year old son put on makeup and wear girls clothing was fine. She said "you'd have no problem if it was a girl who wanted to play with firetrucks or guns". I responded that the the tomboy is an accepted even admired cultural type in the United States. The sissy is not.

I'd sooner leave my kids locked in a closet all day than let one of those sensitive, caring camp counselors have some alone time with one of them. This is an example of homosexuals cultivating a continuous supply of prey. There is a degree of value in social conformity. It prevents kids from standing out as easy victims whether from bullying or sexual predators..

Quick question, how many of these "boys" were actually hermaphrodites (born with at least vestigial versions of both sex organs)? This is increasingly common, with medical staff requiring the parents to chose boy or girl when very young so that the child could be raised as one or the other gender.

As we drift further and further from the Garden of Eden in a sea of birth control pills in the water supply, hormones in our food supply, and other toxins....

Are some of these children there out of parental guilt over the choice they made for their child's gender? Somehow, I doubt that is the explanation for most of these camp(ers).

Stickwick, I've read the same thing about Victorian/Edwardian habits with boys. So I must agree in part.

But my reading of most every Hemingway bio indicates that Grace ran with a social convention to manifest her obsession with having "twins", and converting EH to the girl she never had. And then extending EH's 'girlhood' far longer than On top of which, her manipulations of EH and Dr. Hemingway -- always occurring in the direction of shaming and emasculation -- and concluding with the 'gift' of Dr. Hemingway's suicide weapon to EH (as in, "Now it's your turn, you shameful man"), indicate a pathology.

Even if you disagree with my view of this, it's important to note that EH viewed her in the manner I describe. And in his art and in his life, we are not talking about a guy here who was unconcerned with masculinity, his personal masculinity, and the uncertainty with which he addressed his masculinity.

Finally, in the end, EH only loved one of his wives, his first: Hadley. Pauline and Mary were each very *mannish* in appearance; Mary was mannish as well in career. Martha was attractive physically in a feminine way, but she was a frustrated dom in their brief relationship, and dedicated a good portion of the rest of her life to being the ex-wife from hell. A prototypical alpha outwardly and in practice, Hemingway nonetheless spent the bulk of his romantic life in the embrace of boyish, plain women -- or whores. This was a very damaged man. Read the Garden of Eden, which is an astonishing text, and no wonder he suppressed it while alive. I do think it is his most honest book after the early work (produced while with Hadley).

There may be merit to what you're saying. When I visited Key West a few years ago, it seemed to be an open secret that Hemingway was not only a homosexual, but a pederast. The claim is that he married wealthy, socially-elite women in order to maintain the lifestyle he wanted. Who knows if any of this is actually true, but it's consistent with your observations.

Stickwick, I disagree that there is the slightest evidence (again, I've read just about everything that anyone has ever written about him, including that written by enemies; I've read his letters; I've read every line of fiction) that he was a pederast. He was perhaps the most visible man of his era, after Lindbergh, so I don't think there are any secrets out there.

I think you are absolutely correct about his use of wealthy women. He was frequently broke. He debauched his art writing crap in the 1930's, to pay his bills. Martha procured and funded and renovated the Finca in Cuba. Pauline could be said to have purchased at least some of his attention. Hadley and Pauline had significant family money. He spent money, throughout his life, as fast as he made it, and frequently before he made it. His name granted him credit (e.g., he couldn't afford the Pilar, but he scrounged, borrowed and fast-talked his way into its construction), and his talent bailed him out.

The child’s mother didn’t tell store management or the police, and blogged about it. The post got attention, went viral, and was republished on the Huffington Post. You’ll notice that we’re not linking to it, though, because the post

(A Mother Thing)

has been pulled from the Post and her personal blog taken down as well. That’s because some of the attention that comes from everyone sharing your story on Facebook is inevitably negative, and the mother didn’t

News outlets in central Florida report that on Monday, she was taken into custody at a psychiatric institution after expressing suicidal thoughts online. She was released late yesterday. She claimed that attention and actual threats to her family after the post became popular caused a mental breakdown.

hello, i have been reading the posts on this site for a while. fantastic stuff. i am requesting for input on a specific topic - "how to behave around beta men". i am situated in finance and am consistently around beta men. i get sick of it. sometimes i ignore them, sometimes i show them alpha-ness. it works and it does not - i get in trouble sometimes as they feel insecure around me. your expertise would be very helpful on this. good day.

CruelHeart, are you female or male? If you're a male, dumb inquiry, and you're posing. If you're female, just be their big sister or benevolent mommie. Don't expect them to interest you; find virtue in their virtues, because they will admire and support you for it, and float your boat with better seas.

The sad part of this story is that the children are only mimicking the parents empathy. The children are "learning" to behave in a way that satisfies the childs need to belong to the family unit. The child will behave in most any way possible to get parental approval.

Its a feedback system, if you want to see how perverse it is look at the parents reaction in the "fashion" show picture. Approval is clearly indicated, thus the child will mimic accordingly. It is until the mirror nodes of the child are turned down around age 8 that the child will feel out of place in the "real" world. Trying to fit in using the tools taught at this camp. Eventually the child will either take the red pill, or live a life of misery trying to merge what was taught, and what reality feedback.

Adults can control, tame and retrain their desires. Children lack the obvious cerebral development and wisdom.

Can this kids we talked into, say, fighting overseas in 8 to 12 more years? We shall see or do we even want to see? Do the kids know they have no real future in this fashionable state much less as normal boys?

"...I am situated in finance and am consistently around beta men. I get sick of it. Sometimes I ignore them, sometimes I show them alpha-ness. It works and it does not--I get in trouble sometimes as they feel insecure around me."

These photos would anger me even if this was a camp for little *girls*. Dolling them up with makeup and shiny, low-cut dresses... no child belongs in that sort of outfit. It's just another way for doughy, overweight single mothers to live vicariously through their children. Drama.

Hey I've been meaning to ask for quite some time now: "What are some very effective ways to beat the "gamma" and "omega" out of gammas and omegas and improve their socio-sexual success?"

Gammas and omegas are different in nature. Omegas simply don't have a clue. Gammas have a clue, and they reject it because they would rather lie to themselves than face the truth.

All the modern psychobabble about finding and "connecting" with one's deeper self, or "having a good self-image" is bullshit. You only get a better self-image through one simple thing: accomplishment. Boys and men need Dragons to slay.

Also, those born with lesser gifts should not think that disqualifies them. What you do with what you have is what defines you much more than what you had to start with. Imagine the despair of a guy who was given everything: looks, athletic body, intelligence, socioeconomic class, and yet he accomplishes nothing but mediocrity. Now, imagine a guy born with no arms and legs who manages to make something of his life rather than wallow in self-pity. And note that Nick Vujicic did not meet and attract his lovely young wife because he was a quadriplegic, but because he conquered life in spite of it.

As I said, and as Nate says in the Dragon Slaying article and comments, Omegas just need direction. Gammas need something else. I think they need to come to a realization somewhere, somehow, that no one owes them nice treatment just because they exist. No one owes them *anything*. Until they cross that line, they will continue to inhabit a world that is defined by every real or imagined slight, and encouraged by every soothing voice that lies to them that "those insensitive people just don't know the real you." If you find yourself seeking out voices of reassurance rather than instruction and direction, you are a gamma.

When your group can't reproduce itself the old-fashioned way by making babies, you have to recruit. The odd thing is, the people who say sexual orientation is immutable are the ones who are hoping that treating 3-year-old boys like girls will turn them homosexual (or some other type of sexual deviancy), which shows they really don't believe their own claims.

When I was in grade school, I was small and awkward and sucked at kickball, so I preferred sitting with the girls at recess and making those fortune-telling things out of paper. I'm so glad no one decided that meant I was really a girl inside and needed to be sent to dress-up camp.

As the days go by I think the jihadists are the only ones left in the world who actually believe in something. The nature of the leftists is for perpetual progress and since it is progress for progress sake and they hold to no moral absolutism there is no reason why their own progressive moral system cannot inevitably turn on itself. Progress seems to be like a drug for these people, both addictive and tolerance building. The more change that happens the more they need to change. Eventually, they will erode too many social barriers and the whole thing will collapse. Society is really repression of the self. Repress it too much and you stifle creativity. Liberate it too much and no one can form a group. It always devolves into chaos since there is NO SOCIAL ORDER without hierarchy. There is no order of any kind without hierarchy.

(Long time getting back...) I agree with what you are saying, it makes sense. I have seen most of the articles you suggested. The YouTube vid about Nick Vujicic was truly motivating. God bless him, his wife and his family.....

P.S. I posed the questions to get help for gammas and omegas. Thanks for the input and see you around on the blogosphere. I tried to reach you at your new blog but I see you're still working on it. Wish you the best and see you around.